Lots of emails regarding "winning the lottery" how do i prevent these?

i keep getting millions of emails aout winning an email lottery etc which are all, of course, BULL so how do i revent getting them! hotmail does regularly get it right and put it in junk email but is there a better way?
i was going to reply to one basically saying F-off lol, but if i did this would my email get hacked or something by them for being "rude"?

You can never eliminate 100% of the spam but you may be able to minimize the number you get. Below are some hints:

You shouldn't open unsolicted email from unknown sources. Often what happens is that when you open up spam, it sends back a trigger to the originating source indicating that a valid email address has been found thus subjecting you to even more spam down the road. Even using the preview pane in email products sends web beacons back to spammers if you have HTML enabled.

(http://helpdesk.gwu.edu/mailfilter/spam....

Here are a few steps you can take to try and avoid spam.

1. Don't open unsolicited Spam. Often what happens is that when you open up spam, it sends back a trigger to the originating source indicating that a valid email address has been found thus subjecting you to even more spam down the road.

2. Don't use the Preview Pane for the same reasons as #1. Also adjust your email options not to automatically open up email messages. Set it so that after you finish reading one email and take the necessary action you return to the inbox and not open the next one.

3. Set you email options to accept mail from only people in your address book or safe lists.

4. Set some filters to automatically route spam to certain folders for easy deletion later.

5. Use a throwaway account for any online registrations you need such as news sites and contests, etc. Often these email addresses are sold to other places, particularly advertising firms. If the throwaway account gets over run, you can simply delete it and create another.

6. Use the BCC when composing emails and encourage your friends to do the same. What this does is protects mailing lists from email harvesters.

7. You can consider using a third party application such as SpamFighter (free version can only be used for 1 account and it is for Outlook and Outlook Express only) http://www.spamfighter.com/ . Mailwasher is also a good antispam tool. http://www.mailwasher.net/

8. Never reply to any spam email that you happen to open and receive for the same reason as #1 above.

You can see more info at the webpage below:

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/ST04-007...

Block the e-mail address, by using your filter settings, just add the address to you blocked list.

I replied giving my ex boyfriends details...unfaithful shitbag.

Mark them as spam

Just block the e-mail address and report as SPAM. I get these kinds of e-mails myself and I just don't pay attention to them. If you know it's too good to be true then more than likely it is a bunch of BS.

Don't sweat it.

Unfortunately hotmail is pretty limited as far as what you can do. They dont allow filtering based on email subject.

You can turn the security to a higher setting, but then some emails you actually want may be routed to your junk mail.

1. select the sender's e-mail address and press ctrl+c
2. go to options
3. click on spam (if using new yahoo mail)
4. paste the address in the block e-mail addresses box
5. click add
6. click save changes
7. back to mail

finished. u'll never get e-mails from the blocked address. i do the same thing. have around 38 blocked address. no spam for 1 month